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Voyou_Charmant
01/22/09

In reply to Virtual Keyboard Confounds Key-logging Bosses, Criminals, and Spouses
Just a tip, if your employer is logging the time you waste on the clock, they are using something more sophisticated that a basic keylogger.

A "key scrambler" may work but almost certainly they would be monitoring application activity, which would give away both the virtual keyboard AND the scrambler.

And really, "Draconian internet/computer policies", don't be so dramatic. You're on their time and likely their equipment. If your companies acceptable use policy is to overbearing, don't sign off on it and find a new job. Or, even better: argue your point. I'm sure your boss would love to discuss why you should be able to post on Gizmodo while you should, ya know, be working.
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Curves
01/22/09

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This is going to be a hit with all my married G/Fs who complain their husbands put keyloggers on their computers for passwords to their accounts.
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libelle47
01/22/09

@Curves: that's an awful lot of work just to get a password. When I need access to the wife's accounts, I just ask. She does the same for mine.

(I guess my point is that not all of us male nerds are suspicious, boundary-disrespecting sneaks.)
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Curves
01/22/09

@libelle47: I am pretty sure that at least some of the "suspicious, boundary-disrespecting sneaks" (of both sexes) have cause to be that way.

It actually wasnt a bash on men, just that my GFs all ask me for tech support and I can tell they are going to like this one. (A wise woman doesnt bash men on a site that has about a 98% male readership.)
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Voyou_Charmant
01/22/09

@Curves: The suspicious, insecure partner market is split pretty evenly. Just as many women are using that software.
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SilenceisGolden
01/22/09

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is there any easy way to find out if you have a logger on your comp?
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Ibelieveinsandwitches
01/22/09

@SilenceisGolden:

feed them false information.
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A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
01/22/09

@Ibelieveinsandwitches: How's that gonna help you find out if you have one on your computer
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ripfire
01/22/09

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's snake!: When you hear your boss yelling out to call you into his office.

"JJJEEETTTSSOOON!!!!"
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OMG! Moeyyy
01/22/09

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How is this different from the Windows On Screen Keyboard??
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Rabid Penguin
01/22/09

@Moeyyy: I believe the on screen keyboard actually sends keyboard commands, where as the javascript keyboard doesn't.
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